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L'Année Dernière à Marienbad (1961)
Director: Alain Resnais
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From Time Out Film Guide
Something of a key film in the development of concepts of cinematic modernism, simply because - with a script by nouveau roman iconoclast Alain Robbe-Grillet - it sets up a puzzle that is never resolved: a man meets a woman in a rambling hotel and believes he may have had an affair with her the previous year at Marienbad - or did he? Or was it somewhere else? Deliberately scrambling chronology to the point where past, present and future become meaningless, Resnais creates a vaguely unsettling mood by means of stylish composition, long, smooth tracking shots along the hotel's deserted corridors, and strangely detached performances. Obscure, oneiric, it's either some sort of masterpiece or meaningless twaddle.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Alain Resnais
Producer: Pierre Courau, Raymond Froment
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff, Françoise Bertin, Pierre Barbaud, Luce Garcia-Ville full cast
Duration: 94 mins
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